December 2011
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Watchreuters:
The Year in 60 Seconds : 2011
A multimedia showcase of some of 2011’s top stories, including Japan’s tragic earthquake, the Arab Spring, the demise of Osama bin Laden and Muammar Gaddafi, the shooting rampage in Norway, famine in Somalia and the Royal Wedding. Multimedia editing by Jillian Kitchener.
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Amazon and Long-form Journalism →
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Anecdotal evidence is trickling in that Amazon is turning into a legitimate outlet for long-form journalism.
For example, Marc Herman recently wrote about Libya for The Atlantic and then turned his additional reporting into a Kindle Single selling for $1.99. Current result: the title is in Kindle’s top 500 and Herman is on pace to recoup the costs of his Libya trip.
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Trying to crosspost to Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr from Diasora. It will be truly amazning if it all works.
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WatchJoe Sabia: The technology of storytelling
iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad.
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Twitter Launches Major Redesign [VIDEO] →
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Twitter on Thursday introduced a new look for Twitter.com and TweetDeck that it hopes will simplify the user experience. As the video above outlines, Twitter also introduced three new buttons at the top of the page — Home, @Connect and #Discover. @Connect shows who has mentioned you and s…
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WatchSecretary Clinton is delivering the keynote address at the opening of a ministerial conference on Internet freedom in The Hague that will launch a cross-regional, multi-stakeholder coalition committed to promoting the freedoms of expression, association, and assembly online.
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Why news sites should add Facebook’s new...
“We will soon launch the Subscribe plugin, an extension of the Subscribe button, that publishers and other developers can add to their websites to make it easy for people to connect to reporters and public figures in one click,” Facebook said in a statement to The Next Web.
Back in September, Facebook launched its subscription feature, and the “subscribe” button is a logical next step.
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Drone Journalism: What is drone journalism? →
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With the FAA set to open the nation’s airways to civilian unmanned aircraft, the potential uses for drones outside of the military are starting to open up. And that raises a question: Could you do journalism from a drone?
That’s a question we want to try and answer at the Drone Journalism Lab…
Sex, drugs and chat...
Now, that I got your attention with that title, let me tell you what this post is really about.
I want to check how chatting works in Tumblr and is it even close to what other services are offering. And for that very reason I need people to react to this post.
My experience with the Internet(s) has taught me, that theres nothing like sex and crime to get a conversation going.
So let's see if the trick worjs again. Let's talk about anything you like, especially sex and drugs : ))
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“Preeminent social network Facebook has acquired location check-in and travel...”
– Facebook Purchases Gowalla to beef up Timeline - The Next Web (via thenextweb)
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